Margaret Junkin Preston quotes

“God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!”
-- Margaret Junkin Preston

Source : Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”

#Husband Quotes #War Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Pain is no longer pain when it is past.”
-- Margaret Junkin Preston

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.260

#Pain Quotes #Past Quotes

“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”
-- Margaret Junkin Preston

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

#Sweet Quotes #Lying Quotes #Pie Quotes

“The lotos bowed above the tide and dreamed.”
-- Margaret Junkin Preston

Source : Margaret Junkin Preston (1870). “Old Song and New”, p.94

#Lotuses Quotes #Tides Quotes

“O Nature, gracious mother of us all, Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie Which thou surrenderest to the patient eye That seeks and waits.”
-- Margaret Junkin Preston

#Mother Quotes #Nature Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”

Source : The History of the Kentish Petition addenda, l. 11 (1712 - 1713) See Abigail Adams 1

“I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.”

“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!”

“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”

“Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.”

“His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.”

“He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.”